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GEORGE A. MALLORY AND .1. FISH, vOF OXFORD, NEW YOEK.

l Letters .Patent No. 70,871, dated November 12, 1867.

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To ALL WHOMv 1T MAY OONOERN:

Be it known that we, G. A.' MALLORY and J. J. FISH, of Oxford, in the county of Chenango, and State of New York, have invented a new and improved Combined Quilting-Frame and Clothes-Horse; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the artvto make and use the same, reference b'eing had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specificanon, in whicht v Figure 1 is an end yview of our improved combined quilting-frame and clothes-horse. l

Figure-2 isla side view of the same.

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Thenature of this invention consists in constructing a frame, so arranged as to be adapted equally to use as a qnilting-frame'and a clothes-horse and capable of adjustment for either purpose, asdesred.

Twolcentral standards, A A, are united by a cross-rail, B, formed in two parts, one-of which` is slotted so that the cross-rail'may'be contracted or extended in length and secured at any desired point of extension by a thumb-screw, a. The upper ends of the standards A A are also slotted to permit the adjustment at different heights, as desired, of two arms, C C, attached to each standard and secured to it by thumb-screwsfb b." The arms C C are also slotted to permit their contraction and extension in-ther projection from the standards A A. The outer ends of the arms C C are connected by lroller-bars, c c, that turn on pivots at their ends,` each bar being provided at one end with-.a crank-i'atchet wheel, d, by which it is turned around and held in place at any point by a dog, e. It will be seen-that by' this arrangement of the frame the standards A A may bve-adjusted and held by the thumb-screw a to suit quilts of different widths, and that the arms C C may be extended to suit different lengths, while they'may also be set at different heights by thev'thumb-screws 6 b. A quilt inthe frame may bc rolled up and tightened with therollers c c in the usual way. On the upper sides of the arms c c are set rows of staples, h h, to whichthequilt may be attached.' For converting the frame into` a clotheshorse, it is only necessary to hang cross-rods, g g, of stout wire, made of white metal or iron galvanized, the ends of which are bent to hookvin the staples h t, asV shown in fig. 2. The arms C C may be raised and lowered to any angle for convenience, asvshown in fig. 1, in which position they are held by the thumb-screws b b.,

Having described my invention,y I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The adjustable. slotted standards A A, cross-rail 1.3arms C C, and cross-rods g g, constructed and arranged to serve as a quilting-frame and clothes-horse combined, substantially as described. I

GEO. A. MALLORY, J. J. FISH.

Witnesses:

M..V. N. BROWN, S. H. FIsH. 

